The Pitt Season 2’s Most Difficult Scene To Shoot Is not The One You Assume [Exclusive]

This text accommodates spoilers for “The Pitt” Season 2 finale, “9:00 P.M.”

The employees of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Middle, the fictional hospital the place HBO Max’s “The Pitt” takes place, would not sometimes have simple days. The identical may be stated for the oldsters who make the present. Whether or not it is constructing an immersive emergency division set, creating elaborate prosthetics for on-camera operations, or attempting to keep up a documentary high quality throughout difficult surgical procedures, “The Pitt” crew has its fingers full. This behind the scenes video offers only a tiny glimpse on the advanced orchestration crucial to realize the present’s objectives:

Season 2 introduces a number of problems, together with a child that was deserted within the hospital, the introduction of AI into the office, the deteriorating psychological well being of Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle), and the revelation about what’s actually been occurring with Dr. Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi). However after I just lately spoke with Johanna Coelho, who has served because the cinematographer of “The Pitt” for each episode of the sequence thus far, she revealed that essentially the most tough second to shoot in Season 2 was not one of many surgical procedures the place somebody’s chest was ripped open, like I assumed. The truth is, the hardest second of the season did not even occur contained in the partitions of the Pitt.

I requested “The Pitt” DP Johanna Coelho if there was any Season 2 scene that required an surprising answer or some further creativity to realize. After mentioning that the post-credits karaoke scene was enjoyable as a result of it was so completely different than what they usually do, she highlighted the hardest scene of the season:

“A difficult scene, we had one additionally in Episode 15 the place Digby is strolling within the park away with the model. Weirdly, it was a bit of onerous to gentle this one, as a result of the model is so clear and pure, it takes a lot gentle, after which Digby is a bit of dirtier and darker pores and skin at that second and all of that. In order that was actually onerous to gentle in a pure approach that we may simply comply with this transfer like this. I did not anticipate this to be so difficult, and it ended up being difficult.

I believed the rooftop scene the place they’re watching fireworks was going to be more difficult, and that turned out to really be a bit of simpler to shoot. [laughs] So generally you by no means know what occurs. It is perhaps a particular scenario and you have not been in that particular scenario. For me, that was that model that took a lot gentle, whereas the character did not and I felt we saved being distracted from the model to only Digby as effectively.”

There have been seemingly extra emotionally taxing scenes to movie — Dana (Katherine LaNasa) talking with the sexual assault survivor, as an illustration — however it’s ironic that the hardest second to really shoot wasn’t an amputation and even the arrival of a helicopter, however only a man strolling down a sidewalk.

Season 2 of “The Pitt” is now streaming in its entirety on HBO Max.